Experts Suggest 10 Strategies to Improve Patient Safety

Posted on May 07, 2013

For the first time in a decade, experts have issued an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report, identifying ways to improve patient safety from preventable medical harm. The report, which was issued in March 2013 indicates that most health care organizations in the United States should be able to implement the following ten safety strategies within the next three years.

Avoiding using drug abbreviations so that medication errors can be prevented.

Using multiple interventions to prevent pressure ulcers.

Some hospitals allegedly do a better job than others of currently implementing these strategies. However, experts believe that compliance with these standards and strategies is not yet universal and could make a big difference in preventing medical malpractice injuries and fatalities.

Our Louisville medical malpractice lawyers extend their best wishes for full recoveries to anyone who has been hurt by a medical mistake, and we hope that compliance with these expert-identified strategies reduces such mistakes, injuries, and deaths in the future.